Portrait of 18762 Chief Electrical Artificer Allen Leslie Smith. A fitter and turner from Sydney, ...

Accession Number P11537.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Print hand-coloured black & white
Maker Unknown
Date made 1930s
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Portrait of 18762 Chief Electrical Artificer Allen Leslie Smith. A fitter and turner from Sydney, NSW, Allen Smith enlisted in the RAN on 16 September 1927. He was killed in action, aged 36, when HMAS Sydney was sunk in the Indian Ocean by the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran on 20 November 1941.

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